Asus A7V Classic V1.01
I have to clean out the closet (per the Mrs.). I found enough parts to put
together a nice computer, Asus A7V with a1.2 thunderbird, FX 440 and XP pro.
Up and running!! I want to update the MB drivers; this MB is so old all the
diver links are broken. Looked at ASUS, and a couple other A7V sites all
links dead.
Any help would be appreciated. I have read that the older 4-1 drives may
work better?
Thanks
There are a number of Asus web sites - replace the
www.asus.it part
with the other website names, to see their download page:
http://www.asus.it/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A7V&Type=All
Taking a sample from the returned page, returns four servers:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/viados.zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/viados.zip (busy right now)
ftp://
www.asus.it/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/viados.zip (busy right now)
http://www.asus.com.cn/pub/ASUS/misc/audio/viados.zip (slow xfer)
The status of the servers is ever-changing, and some will be busier
than others. Recent experience is the Italian .it site is the
best one, whereas before that, the .tw one offered best transfer
speed.
Another site, which had been closed for at least a year, appears
to be open again. That is ftp://usa.asus.com/ . You could try
there. The ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/asuscom German site is also
a good alternate, although the way the info is arranged is not
the same as the other sites (which is probably why the Italian
site is referenced by the download page instead).
There are really lots of servers, some of which aren't well known
or listed anywhere.
There are also a couple of university sites, that mirror Asus
files. They do more than mirror, in the sense that they try
to keep as many versions of BIOS as they can, so some intelligence
is involved there.
Also, before programming the BIOS, you should visit
http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com for advice on gotchas with certain
versions of BIOS. If you are upgrading a very old BIOS, you can
kill the board unless you follow the instructions there (or the
instructions under the "More" link on the Asus download page).
HTH,
Paul
